I did it in disk management. I started with a new 700gb and wanted to add a 300gb partition for a backup Im doing. I formatted the whole 700gb first, without adding the pertiton first and doing them seperate. When I created the new partition, it was unallocated. I was wondering if I can just activate it (the option that says "Dont Format") or if I have to format it (300) again.....after I formatted the whole drive together the first time.
And now Id like to know the consequences of stopping it once its started, LOL. I accidentally started the format process on the new partition and this is going to take forever. Is it formatted already?.....can i just stop it?.....its a clean drive but i dont want problems later.......I really dont know if that would be the case.

The most i have seen GParted take to do anything, even on my old P4 machine was like 5 minutes. That was with 320GB drives. The reason it could haev taken so long was it had to move data from the back of the partition to the front to create the space at the end. In which case it can take up to a hour or longer to do this as it has to move files.

The most i have seen GParted take to do anything, even on my old P4 machine was like 5 minutes. That was with 320GB drives. The reason it could haev taken so long was it had to move data from the back of the partition to the front to create the space at the end. In which case it can take up to a hour or longer to do this as it has to move files.

LOL, thats still about 4 hours less than it took to format the 300gb partition (blank) in windows disc manager. No Joke.

The most i have seen GParted take to do anything, even on my old P4 machine was like 5 minutes. That was with 320GB drives. The reason it could haev taken so long was it had to move data from the back of the partition to the front to create the space at the end. In which case it can take up to a hour or longer to do this as it has to move files.

I did something wrong then. I may have written the drive with zero's, but I can't remember. (had a virus or some issue with it.)